The meal, palatable to all, was a well-made soup; the mother and her two children ate of it with keen appetites.
When it was over, Henry went away again to school and Mrs.Gaston, after administering to Ella another dose of medicine, sat down once more to her work.

One sleeve remained to be sewed in, when the garment would only require to have the collar put on, and be pressed off.

This occupied her until late in the afternoon.
"Thirty cents for all that!" she sighed to herself, as she laid the finished garment upon the bed.

"Too bad! Too bad! How can a widow and three children subsist on twenty cents a day ?" A deep moan from Ella caused her to look at her child more intently than she had done for half an hour.

She was alarmed to find that her face had become like scarlet, and was considerably swollen.